Show #1136 1989-07-10 (taped 1989-02-27) Regular

1989 Senior Tournament quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Steve Haworth — a lawyer from Los Angeles, California

Markee Bourget — a housewife from West Saint Paul, Minnesota

Ouida Rellstab — a teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ouida $-100 $1,500 $7,100 $10,701
Automatic semifinalist
$7,600
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Markee $1,300 $1,500 $3,600 $7,200
2nd place: $1,000
$2,500
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Steve $1,300 $1,200 $4,800 $2,400
3rd place: $1,000
$4,800
18 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPE SHIPS LEATHER THE OCCULT "GIVE" & "TAKE"
$100 [6]
1 of its 3 official names is the Italian "Svizzera"
Switzerland
Steve
$100 [1]
This Georgia city provided the name for the 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic
the Savannah
Ouida
$100 [21]
From the French for "Sweden", this leather has a soft, napped surface
suede
Ouida
$100 [14]
In "The Wizard of Oz", both Professor Marvel & the Wicked Witch gazed into these glass globes
crystal balls
Ouida
$100 [11]
Act 20:35 says, "It is more blessed to" do this
"give" (rather than receive.)
Markee
$200 [7]
Because of its many churches, this Czech capital has been called the "City of 100 Spires"
Prague
Markee
$200 [2]
This nation builds almost half of the world's ships, but most are sold to other countries
Japan
Steve
$200 [22]
Placing hides in a solution of sodium sulfide & limewater for about 18 hours removes this
the hair
Steve
$200 [15]
These fortune-telling cards may have been introduced to Europe by returning crusaders
tarot cards
Markee
$200 [12]
Henny Youngman's most famous 1-liner
"My wife, take her please." ("Take my wife, please.")
Ouida Markee
$300 [8]
The title of its national anthem translates to "Hey Slavs"
Yugoslavia
Steve
$300 [3]
Lateen sails, which are better for sailing into the wind, are always of this shape
triangles
Steve
$300 [23]
Until the 14th C. introduction of paper into Europe, this specially-treated leather was used for writing
sheepskin (parchment)
Ouida
$300 [16]
This pseudoscience was concerned with discovering how to turn base metals into gold
alchemy
Ouida
$300 [13]
Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly were singing & dancing baseball players in this 1949 musical
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Markee
$400 [9]
95% of Hungary's population is descended from this band of invaders who conquered the area in the late 800s
Magyars
Ouida Markee
$400 [4]
The luxury liner the QE2 is operated by this British company
Cunard
Steve
$400 [24]
This leather, the most highly polished, can get its glossy finish by successive coats of heavy oil varnish
patent leather
Ouida
$400 [17]
Yes, its name comes from the French & German words for "yes"
(the) Ouija
Ouida
$400 [19]
Her picture on the Dec. 19, 1988 cover of People was captioned "Why Does Everyone Hate Me?"
Robin Givens
Steve
$500 [10]
This largest of West German states has been a duchy, a kingdom & a republic
Bavaria
Markee Steve
$500 [5]
Mohammed Abul Abbas was the mastermind accused of the 1985 hijacking of this Italian cruise ship
the Achille Lauro
Steve
$500 [25]
It's a place in which hides are converted into leather
a tannery
Steve
$500 [18]
It's the ability to move an object using psychic powers
telekinesis
Ouida
DD $500 [20]
In a 19th C. poem, this line follows "'Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she With silent lips."
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses..."
Ouida

Double Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE ZOOLOGY ACADEMY AWARDS U.S. STATES '40s SONGS THEY ALSO WROTE
$200 [6]
Patty Ludwin of Canonsburg, Penn. turns blue jeans into "Calamity Jeans" by riddling them with these
bulletholes
Steve
$200 [16]
It's estimated chimpanzees spend 50 to 75% of the day in these
trees
$200 [26]
After cutting off her famous curls, she became the first actress to win an Oscar for a talking picture
Mary Pickford
Markee
$200 [1]
If this state were an independent country, it would be the 6th richest in the world
California
Steve
$200 [11]
"I'd love to get you on a slow boat to" this country "all to myself, alone"
China
Steve
$200 [21]
He also wrote "The Fortunate Pilgrim", "Fools Die" & "The Sicilian"
Mario Puzo
Ouida Markee
$400 [7]
This TV chef once said that she loves to snack on hot dogs & Fritos
Julia Child
Steve
$400 [17]
The only place in Asia in which these big cats are still found in the wild is the Gir Forest in India
lions
Markee Steve
$400 [27]
She was nominated for her film debut as Garp's mother in "The World According to Garp"
Glenn Close
$400 [2]
New Hampshire was the 1st U.S. state to finance education by this method, adopted in 1963
the lottery
Steve
$400 [12]
This song asked if you'd "Like to... carry moonbeams home in a jar... or would you rather be a mule?"
"Swinging On A Star"
Markee
$400 [22]
He also wrote "The Source", "Chesapeake" & "Space"
James Michener
Steve
$600 [8]
This black talk show host was discovered by singer Nancy Wilson who financed his move to L.A.
Arsenio Hall
Steve
$600 [18]
Each time a rattlesnake does this, it adds another segment to the end of its tail
shed its skin
Steve
$600 [28]
Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for playing this wretched character in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Nurse Ratched
Steve
$600 [3]
The largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi is this state's Adirondack Park
New York
Markee
$800 [14]
In the song "Sentimental Journey", "That's the time we leave"
seven
Ouida Markee
$600 [23]
He also wrote "Orpheus Descending", "Summer & Smoke" & "The Rose Tattoo"
Tennessee Williams
Markee
$800 [9]
Anne Archer is the daughter of this actress who played Danny Thomas' wife on TV
Marjorie Lord
Markee Steve
$800 [19]
The male of this bird is called a cob, the female, a pen
a swan
Ouida Steve
$800 [4]
Jimmy Swaggart usually preaches via TV from this, his home state
Louisiana
Ouida
$1,000 [15]
This J. Mercer-H. Arlen tune told us to "Latch on to the affirmative, Don't mess with Mr. In-Between"
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive"
Ouida
$800 [24]
He also wrote "Tortilla Flat", "The Wayward Bus" & "Travels with Charley"
John Steinbeck
Markee
$1,000 [10]
First lady whose father, Marvin Pierce, was once publisher of McCall's magazine
Barbara Bush
Steve
$1,000 [20]
Among the different species of thse on the African plains are the Grant's, Speke's & Thomson's
gazelles
Ouida
$1,000 [5]
The geographic center of the lower 48 is just outside the town of Lebanon in this state
Kansas
Steve
DD $1,700 [13]
Tho Larry Parks played him, Al Jolson was heard singing this songin "The Jolson Story""Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed, We vowed our true love..."
"The Anniversary Song"
Markee
$1,000 [25]
She also wrote "A Lost Lady", "The Song of the Lark" & "My Ántonia"
Willa Cather
Ouida

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia was the only person to hold this office

Vice President of the Confederacy

Markee "What was V.P. of Confederacy?" — wagered $3,600
Steve "What was" — wagered $2,400
Ouida "What is VP of the Confeder" — wagered $3,601

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